about vinod kurup

I built a web application to keep track of my running a couple years ago. I really began using it in earnest during my training for the New York Marathon last year. I’ve been meaning to make it available for others to use for a long time, but it always seemed like there was a little more work I needed to do on it. While working on it the other day, I noticed the original timestamp on one of the source files: September 21, 2003 Yikes! That’s 2 and a half years ago. Enough is enough — it’s time to let this baby free…

Hit The Wall is officially version 0.2 and available for free use by anyone who wants to keep track of their running. Feel free to look through my real log (read-only) or demorunner’s fake log (read-write) to try it out.

I’ve created a separate blog and a forum where I’ll post updates and respond to questions or comments.

I’ve mentioned Darwinports before. I’ve finally gotten around to (minimally) documenting my Darwinports OpenACS installation. It’s not quite 1-click installation, but it’s getting closer.

It wasn’t easy, but I finally got OpenFTS-0.3.2-tcl to compile on Mac OS X (10.2.8). I started by reading the excellent Mac OS X porting guides from Fink and Apple. Unfortunately, the OpenFTS Makefile and configure scripts aren’t standard, so I had to muck around with things alot. Here’s the diff:

 diff -U 2 -rbB Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.3.2/aolserver/Makefile  Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.3.2-vk/aolserver/Makefile --- Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.3.2/aolserver/Makefile	Tue Nov 19 14:24:44 2002 +++ Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.3.2-vk/aolserver/Makefile	Wed Jan 14 23:23:13 2004 @@ -13,6 +13,6 @@  OBJ       = $(SOBJ) $(POBJ) $(OOBJ) nsfts.o  NSFTSLIB  = nsfts.so -LDSO      = gcc -shared  INC       = -I../include -I$(NS_HOME)/include -I$(NS_HOME)/nsd +MODLIBS += -L/sw/lib -L/usr/local/aolserver/lib -ltcl8.4 -lnsd    .SUFFIXES: .c .h .so .l @@ -26,5 +26,5 @@    $(NSFTSLIB): $(OBJ) -	$(LDSO) $(OBJ) $(LIBS) -o $(NSFTSLIB) +	$(LDSO) $(OBJ) $(LIBS) -o $(NSFTSLIB) $(MODLIBS)    clean: diff -U 2 -rbB Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.3.2/configure Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.3.2-vk/configure --- Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.3.2/configure	Tue Nov 19 14:24:44 2002 +++ Search-OpenFTS-tcl-0.3.2-vk/configure	Wed Jan 14 22:36:44 2004 @@ -2771,4 +2771,16 @@  fi   +# +# Mac OS X 10.2 +# +# vinodk: not sure if all of this is needed/accurate +if test `uname` = "Darwin"; then +    PLATFORM="osx" +    CC="cc" +    LD="cc" +    CFLAGS="$CFLAGS -no-cpp-precomp" +    LDSO="$LD -flat_namespace -bundle" +fi +  if test $PLATFORM = "unknown"; then          { { echo "$as_me:2774: error: unknown platform" >&5 

Then, follow the instructions in AOLSERVER.INSTALL. I’m not too handy with this Makefile/configure stuff, so I’d appreciate any guidance on how to do this properly :-).

I upgraded to OpenACS 5 thanks to instructions from DaveB, et. al. I had a few hitches with that process, but the system seems to be working OK and is certainly zippier. I haven’t tested everything out yet, so please holler if anything breaks.